vulnerable - Story 166229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to shrink around her as she sat in her mother's cluttered office, sifting through the boxes. The air was close and stagnant. Each assignment was a window into her younger self. Each one was a testament to a childhood, a time she had tried to leave behind.

She found a math test covered in red ink. Her fingers tightened around the paper. She was flooded with the feeling of inadequacy.

She leaned back in her chair, the hard wood digging into her spine. The past was everywhere, suffocating.

Emotion: vulnerable

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.07 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.69

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vulnerable. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vulnerable stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vulnerable emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vulnerable vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.327
`ness`	0.319
`😞`	0.299
`😔`	0.277
`😣`	0.258

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.567
`la`	-0.488
`l`	-0.271
`(!)`	-0.267
`(!)`	-0.257